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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gordon, Linda. Great Arizona orphan abduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607365750 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda Gordon |
| ISBN: | 0674360419 9780674360419 |
| OCLC Number: | 41285091 |
| Description: | xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | October 2, 1904, night: North Clifton, Arizona -- September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City -- King Copper -- October 1, 1903, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station -- Mexicans come to the mines -- October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton -- The priest in the Mexican camp -- October 2, 1904, afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton library hall -- The Mexican mothers and the Mexican town -- October 2, 1904, Evening: The hills of Clifton -- The Anglo mothers and the company town -- October 2, 1904 Night: Clifton hotel -- The strike -- October 2-4, 1904, Clifton drugstore and library hall, Morenci Hotel -- Vigilantism -- January 1905: courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix -- Family and race. |
| Responsibility: | Linda Gordon. |
Abstract:
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. The interracial conflict leads to conflict, violence and lenghty court battles.
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- Clifton (Ariz.) -- Race relations.
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- Kidnapping -- Arizona -- Clifton -- History -- 20th century.
- Catholic Church -- Arizona -- Clifton -- History -- 20th century.
- Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Clifton -- History -- 20th century.
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